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Best Christmas Carol Poems

Below are the all-time best Christmas Carol poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of christmas carol poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member A Christmas Carol
Oh the Ghosts, Oh the Ghosts!!!
The Ghosts of Christmas shall haunt the wicked
They shall haunt the bitter and sorrowful decrepit creatures
Your hunched back and wallet...

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Categories: christmas carol, childhood, christmas, funny, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



A Child's Christmas Carol
Once, it was a time of true magic, 
when the world was small and soft.

It had to be magic, my mind of five told me:
how...

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Categories: christmas carol, allegory, celebration, children, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Holy One, Our Everything
Long ago Messiah came
tiny babe with Holy Name.  
Born a lamb of Bethlehem
Promise of redemption’s plan.
Sinless one, He died for sin.
God in flesh, He...

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© P.S. Awtry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Cradle Song
Cradle Song

Sleep now!  Oh sleep sweet child divine!
Sleep now ‘neath a bright star’s light
Rest now Heaven’s prince!
Dreaming through the night
Angel’s praises sing your lullaby.

How...

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Categories: christmas carol, christmas, jesus, Lullaby, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Call Your Mother
Call Your Mother

Pick up the phone...
do it now. 
If you can.
Later if you must, 
I trust that you, 
know the difference. 

She never put you...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Scrumptious Boistrous Christmas
(Sing to the tune of "Holly Jolly Christmas)

Have a scrumptious boistrous Christmas.
Party hearty. Ho Ho Ho!
Move your hips, then wet your lips
and find some mistletoe!
Have...

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Categories: christmas carol, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member My Little Red Corvette
Sugar drops and colored gumballs,
An open skyline, an open convertible, and a white ragtop!
Black Perrelis, red caps, and spoked mag-frames,
Pacific Coast Highway, and her stairway...

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© Thomas Hsi  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, adventure, car, for him,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Contest
The Contest

I would like to enter, 
and sometimes I do. 
Occasionally I even win, 
to my surprise. 
How cool!

The true rule, 
to every fool,
or pirate...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Sunset Spirit
Sunset Spirit

Close your eyes, 
and stop thinking. 
Take a moment...
breathe.
God is already beside you. 
He has always been there. 
It is you, 
that must slow...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, angel, death, grief, heaven,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Christmas Callgirl
Everyone has gone home
Where ever home is
The city is bare
Only me
And the call girl left
We share our secrets
In silence
Comrades in despair
The cold winter chills us...

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Categories: christmas carol, kiss, muse, remember, sad
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Fear
Fear

It is a very small demon. 
It is a tiny monster, 
that never stops chewing on;
anything it can get. 

It is the one that hides,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, angel, bible, creation, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Butterfly
Butterfly

Butterfly sweet, 
lovely wings of gossamer gold. 
Stretch your tips to the stars, 
as that is the reality of freedom. 
Glide for hours above the...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, butterfly, cancer, confusion, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member And
And 

Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies. 
These are the things
we live with, in the country. 
Some you step on, 
some travel in your clothes,...

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© Ann Foster  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, adventure, christian, creation, garden,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tucked Away In a Forest
Tucked away in a forest, where treetops did sway
Lived a family pondering why they felt this way,
A miracle was to happen, which was certain to...

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Categories: christmas carol, family,
Form: Lyric
Woman Poets
Super Duper Poetry Soup Woman Poets

Anyone can make a comment when they want to.
Someone should write one about the men now.

Are pretty woman poets living...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: christmas carol, humorous, , cute,
Form: Couplet

Book: Shattered Sighs